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Mariners Claim Dario Alvarez From Cubs

By Connor Byrne | March 21, 2018 at 3:29pm CDT

The Mariners have claimed left-hander Dario Alvarez off waivers from the Cubs, Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times tweets. Alvarez will head to minor league camp with his new organization, and he’ll give the Mariners 38 players on their 40-man roster.

Alvarez, 29, debuted with the Mets back in 2014 but saw little action with them. He ended up throwing just five innings with the Mets over two seasons. Alvarez then moved on to Atlanta and Texas, where he combined for 43 frames from 2016-17. All told, Alvarez has pitched to a 5.06 ERA/5.07 FIP in the majors and logged 11.44 K/9, 4.13 BB/9 and a 38.2 percent groundball rate. Alvarez has struggled against hitters of either handedness during his short big league career, having allowed a .378 wOBA versus righties and a .356 mark to lefties.

Despite Alvarez’s subpar production at baseball’s highest level, the Cubs signed him to a major league contract early in the winter. But he wasn’t able to stick in Chicago after allowing six earned runs on seven hits and six walks, with 11 strikeouts, over 7 1/3 spring innings. He’ll try to return to the majors with the Mariners, whose projected season-opening bullpen features fellow lefties Marc Rzepczynski and James Pazos.

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  1. themed

    3 years ago

    Another guy the cubs missed out on. Big mistake.

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    • ReverieDays

      3 years ago

      He’s never done anything at the MLB level and stunk in spring. Good riddance.

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      • Kayrall

        3 years ago

        You all need to not feed the troll

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    • majorflaw

      3 years ago

      He’s 29 years old and has a career WHIP >1.6. Which other player should the Cubs have jettisoned to save him? Not a particular Cubs fan—although Kasper and JD are state of the art in a post Scully world—but I’m thinking they will manage to survive this loss.

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    • ray_derek

      3 years ago

      You talking about the guy who’s been on 4 different teams in 5 years? Yeah, big miss…

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      • egrossen

        3 years ago

        I’m assuming sarcasm here. Lol

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    • JDGoat

      3 years ago

      It’s even a bigger mistake that the Cardinals missed out on him

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    • bigcubsfan

      3 years ago

      You think you could do better Weaboo Habeeboo? How bout you and Alvarez go up against Bryant, Rizzo, Schwarber, etc and tell me how that goes.

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  2. Yarbrough7

    3 years ago

    Sad!

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  3. WsuMojo

    3 years ago

    Now he becomes the Mariners #3 overall prospect

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    • xxbooradley

      3 years ago

      This is a funny comment. Don’t miss out.

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  4. Gocubsgo1986

    3 years ago

    This probably means bass or Hancock get the final spot in the pen for the cubs

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    • tim815

      3 years ago

      You have Butler being purged? Or Strop starting on the DL?

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    • bigcubsfan

      3 years ago

      Hamcock is minor league depth, and Bass hasn’t done much in the majors. Maples and Buttler are ahead of them on the depth chart. Buttler will probably be the last RP for them.

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      • adkuchan

        3 years ago

        Maples sure hasn’t pitched like he should be ahead of anyone on the depth chart. He has been hammered this spring. ERA is nearly 13.

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  5. cubfanbob

    3 years ago

    nope

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